and three times visited the elder trump at trump tower. on one visit not long before donald trump declared his candidacy. goldstone says trump was there listening to a rap song. he said look 90 million views, a rapper called mac miller who recently passed away has recorded a song. had 90 million youtube views and it's about me. >> and i said to him, maybe do you think you should listen to the words and what they're saying about you perhaps? just an idea. ♪ all this money, ain't that [ bleep ] ♪ >> and he went it doesn't matter, 90 million views. the third time we went he said to emin, maybe next time i see you i'll be hosting you at the white house. >> before there was trump in the white house, there was trump the candidate. and the next time goldstone set foot in trump tower would be when he arrived for the meeting. coming up -- >> i get a phone call and he said to me initially, i'd like you to set up a meeting with the trumps. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase reli

and three times visited the elder trump at trump tower. on one visit not long before donald trump declared his candidacy. goldstone says trump was there listening to a rap song. he said look 90 million views, a rapper called mac miller who recently passed away has recorded a song. had 90 million youtube views and it's about me. >> and i said to him, maybe do you think you should listen to the words and what they're saying about you perhaps? just an idea. ♪ all this money, ain't that [ bleep ] ♪ >> and he went it doesn't matter, 90 million views. the third time we went he said to emin, maybe next time i see you i'll be hosting you at the white house. >> before there was trump in the white house, there was trump the candidate. and the next time goldstone set foot in trump tower would be when he arrived for the meeting. coming up -- >> i get a phone call and he said to me initially, i'd like you to set up a meeting with the trumps. better. actually, it's bulkier. always discreet doesn't need all that bulk to protect. because it's made dif

and he was donald trump really before donald trump. he focused on illegal immigration as an issue and took it national really. and he was one of the first to endorse trump. the question will be whether trump's coattails are long enough to pull him over in the senate race against bob casey. it looks like they're not at the moment. >> when you talk to trump voters for your book and i guess it was several months ago you were last able to check in with them for the book. of the 12 in your focus group only one trump voter was in doubt about donald trump at this point. >> right. i checked in with them much more recently even after the book closed, i've been in touch with them informally. and that number still holds. of the 12 i profiled, 11 say that if the election were to be held -- the 2020 election were to be held tomorrow they would enthusiastically vote for trump. only one has slipped into the undecided, as you mentioned. i guess the question becomes both for the midterms and 2020 is what is the ceiling on trump's base. >> is it a ceili

trump. in the 1950's, trump lived in a trump's-owned -- woody guthrie trump-owned building in brooklyn. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. "the new york times" expose, the reporters referenced several reporters who did groundbreaking work on trump's finances. one of them was the late wayne barrett who wrote the book "trump: the deals and the downfall." he appeared on [captioning made possible by democracy now!] in 2016 and said fred trump's financial support of donald trump was "unbelievably crucial in donald's rise to prominence. >> be opened his first office in manhattan, the rent was paid by his father's company out here on avenue the and brooklyn. everything that he did, whether be the grand hyatt, for example, to get the financing, he got the financing from two banks that his father had used, used his father's relationship banker. and the father had to sign the financing agreements. they're not going to get a 30 milli

. >> president trump, yeah. and the idea that he's already making excuses before the facts are known, it's typical but it hurts us internationally. >> ann. >> well, there is quite a lot there. certainly the saudi context is a little different than some of trump's other dalliances shall we say with autocrats, putin and kim, principally because republican and democratic administrations before his have been accused of coddling the saudis who do produce an enormous share of the world's oil, have an enormous share of the world's oil reserves and spread their money wide and wisely if their goal is to keep other governments accountable to them or in their debt. but what trump is doing here i think is really interesting. you saw him shift today. you played some of it earlier from a kind of a shrug no one really know what is happened, we have to wait and see, who know, it looks bad to today saying that he believes jamal khashoggi is dead and that there need to be some consequences for that the consequences go directly to

there's a lot that we don't know about president trump than donald trump candidate trump in his history with money. so that was really the beginning of us deciding, let's dig deeper. let's try to pull back as many layers of this onion as we can. >> shepard: at one point during the article, you write, "over time as donald trump careened from one financial disaster to the next, his father found ways to give him more money. even in 1990, mr. trump tried to have his father's will rewritten in a way that fred trump alarmed and angered and could result in his empire to be used to bail out his son's failing businesses." >> that was a huge surprising find for us. was what we were seeing is that fred trump through, you know, starting when donald trump was 3 years old and moving forward had been endlessly creative in coming up with new ways to get money into donald trump's pocket. he didn't pay him to be like on his payroll, but he paid him to be his purchasing agent, a consultant. he gave him the laundry revenue from the buildings. even after this incredible generosity from fred trump to donald

trump is entitled to full legal fees. at fox news, great, now i can go after horse face and her third-rate laywyer in the great state of texas. she'll confirm the letter she signed. she knows nothing about me. a total con." horse face. the president of the united states called a woman with whom he had an alleged sexual relationship horse face. unfortunately it's the kind of insult, personal, childish and mean, that people have become so accustom to with this president that it barely registered as news but it renders the first lady's "be best" campaign, anti-bullying effort, pointless and satirical and ivanka's trump stated mission of being an ambassador for women a pointless joke. how could these women or any woman in the white house pretend they work for anyone other than a very loud mouthed and very thin skinned bully? it even shows bashi ining women alleged victim of a sexual assault, is more than a quirk to trump's personality. it's a political strategy he thinks is a winner. >> professor blasey ford got before the se

cohen saying he did so as trump's direction. trump denied having affairs with either women. the public feud between cohen and trump a drastic 180 from the previously ironclad relationship. >> i'll do anything to protect mr. trump. i am obviously loyal and very dedicated to mr. trump. >> reporter: the president defending his former attorney as recently as april after the fbi raided cohen's manhattan home, hotel room, and office. >> i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys. good man. and it's a disgraceful situation. it's a total witch hunt. i said that is now in a whole new level of unfairness. >> reporter: but as cohen fell deeper into legal trouble, trump began changing his tune. >> mr. president -- >> look, i did nothing wrong. this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wrong. >> is he still your friend? >> i haven't spoken to him in a long time. >> reporter: as he awaits sentencing in december, according to his lawyers he is speaking to investigators, including from special counsel robert mueller's office. likely an a

trump is trump. he makes his own decisions. >> what does he say when he calls you? what do you talk about? >> what's that? >> what do you talk about? >> i've talked to him about -- i did "morning joe" a couple days in a row. he called me afterwards to talk about charlie sykes, believe it or not. he's called me about bill shine. bill shine is a friend of mine. he says, what are we doing here? and i gave shine resounding endorseme endorsements. saying the guy is wonderful for the country and for the administration. >> before he got hired or after? >> this was after. >> listen, eric, people should know that you and i have conversations like this before, right? >> yes. >> not on television. what would you have done if the former president would not come on fox news at all, and the former president had endorsed my book or jake tapper's book or anderson's book or, i don't know, rachel maddow's. i'm throwing out people that he won't come on as president. what do you think you would have done and other fox news hosts and conservatives media, what do you think would have hap

trump do not. esther trump's grandfather -- mr. trump's grandfather am a from what i understand, he was on a run from the german prescription into the army. his grandmother was an impoverished scottish refugee looking for a better life in new york. you would expect these people to have a little more compassion, little more realization that immigrants are this good for country and have been good for this country. instead, they've turned this poisonous vilification of people and dehumanizing them. this feeds into the crazy coconspiracy theories that leadd people, these unhinged people to act outand sayoc their own personal inadequacies by being something important through violence. amy: we're going to have to go to break -- >> it is an old story. amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion, dr. david glosser, uncle of stephen miller, speaking to us from philadelphia. he is former faculty member at boboston university scschool of medicine and jeffeferson medical cocollege. hias.a volunteer for jews back in a momom

the news tonight, as it will be through midterm election night itself, is trump-trump-trump, that's the way he wants it. the question is, how will voters react? calculated, there's no such thing as overexposure, trump's apparent goal now is to dominate the national news, signalling that for better or worse, come november, it's all about trump. in the first 15 days of october, catch this. the president has held eight rallies. that's one more than one every other nate, conducted six major interviews and made him available to answer questions on at least 20 other occasions. and while the president is traditionally opted for favorable platforms like fox, to spread his message, he ventured outside his comfort zone last night appearing on "60 minutes." showing he can stand up to tough questions from a real journalist, leslie stahl. here's how trump, when challenged, declined to single out the russians for their 2016 attack on the integrity of our elections. >> do you believe that the russians interfered in the 2016 campaign -- election? >> they meddled, but i think china meddled, too -- >> wh

donald trump and donald trump jr. are coming to texas. >> betow has to be pretty happy. he will help the congressional candidates. this may help him raise money, too. people will watch that trump junior is coming and they'll give more money to him. >> thanks one and all for being here. how are a extinguished yale alum and fraternity connected to a cartoon about president trump? we'll tell you after this. so you get what you want, without paying for things you don't. number 6. i know. where do i put it? in my belly. (vo) one family. different unlimited plans. starting at $40 per line on the network you deserve. traffic and roads... a mess, honestlyrents going up,le. friends and family moving out of state, millions of californians live near or below the poverty line. politicians like gavin newsom talk about change, but they've done nothing. sky-high gas and food prices. homelessness. gavin newsom, it happened on your watch. so, yeah. it is time for a change. time for someone new. >>> some of the most biting criticism of

president trump: yes. because our justice department and fbi played right into their hands with the stupid investigation or whatever you call it. people say i'm not under investigation. i'm not a target of this investigation which nobody likes to say. but it played into their hand. if they want to sow chaos. they got it for nothing. we did it to ourselves. the chaos, the stupid chaos. it hasn't been talked about for a long time because people don't believe it. who is going to believe i call russia to give me help. and everyone does say, richard bird, they asked him, he's the head of the senate intelligence. they asked, did you see collusion in he says no, i didn't see collusion. but he said there was no collusion. as you know, the house, devin nunes, they came out with a ruling there was no collusion. but richard bird, they asked during the bloods in north and south carolina. they said what about this committee? he said we have found no collusion. trish: collusion aside. the concern is putin and the folks

i think donald trump gets that. he changed the towels out because he wanted them to be softer, because they weren't as soft as the towels that were on his trump plane. >> well, towels and thread count, those are important things. >> it's air fun

all praise donald trump. donald trump is smart, he's strong, he's somebody who knows what he's doing. brett kavanaugh in his supreme court nomination speech, odd that that even happened, said it was the greatest honor of my life that donald trump bestowed this on me. these are all people who say nice things about him. he's very simple in that way. you say nice things about him, he says nice things about you. doesn't ov don't overthink it. >> coming up, tax particulcticsn projects failed. >> and now former trump lawyer michael cohen is planning to go after the president politically. what cnn is learning about his plan to hit the campaign trail with democrats. and after roseanne barr's departure, we finally now how the network wrote her off. s on , every day... not just "airline purchases." (loud) holy moley that's a lot of miles!!! shhhhh! what's in your wallet? - shhhhh! - where are mom and dad? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. love mom and dad' i'm takin' a nap. dude, yo

trump: right. ms. chinn: and the work that you've done with secretary perdue to get many out into our rural communities, we really appreciate the reverse-path auction through the fcc. missouri was awarded $254 million of that. it's going to connect 95,000 homes to high-speed internet. and we just really appreciate it. missourians appreciate what you're doing on their behalf to make their rural communities vibrant again, and to help the agriculture industry pass on to that next generation of farmers and ranchers. pres. trump: great. well, it's my honor. and you have a great race going on out there. ms. chinn: we do. pres. trump: and that will make a big difference. a very positive difference, the outcome. i won't say it because i'm not a political person, so i won't discuss that. [laughter] i won't discuss that in front of the press, okay? go ahead. how about yourself? ms. cundiff: that's funny. so missouri is well represented here. again, i'm from st. charles, missouri, representing the community banki

trump supporters. the president hasd voi alarms of a group of 7,000 migrants traving from central ameri to the u.s. border. president trump: you're going to finds-, middle easterns. and we're not allowing them in our country. robert: mr. trump has not produced evidence of these claims. yet, the administration k continues to bim up ahead of the mid terms. >> after a number of people did put their own credibility on the line and backed him up, he told reporters, you're right, i have no proof. but the could be proof. and that's because the president has realized that fea mongering and these scare tactics do work. one notable difference is that unlike in 2016 when his own party the republicans were conflicted whether this was a od strategy or not you have a lot more republicans falling in line in part because the president won in 2016. thatne kiedis tinks. ane second thing it's not just the president'sage because he is the president and he has the federal bureaucracy at his. dispos he can do things like we

apartments even a case of buying a trump yacht they also mention as well that trump himself boasted back in or with twenty fifteen selling his apartments to saudis for forty fifty million dollars he said the letters also being sent to trump's sons they are executive vice presidents of the trump organization so this is a very serious step made by the democrats donald trump himself well yesterday he tweeted i have no business ties in saudi arabia he's likely to brush the soft as far as the letter is concerned from the democrats he can probably go ahead and do that but in the light of the magnitsky act which is actual legislation which is a bipartisan call from the senate that's a lot more difficult to just brush away mike hanna thank you very much indeed germany's foreign minister has joined the western edge in saudi arabia to cooperate saying attacks on journalists are not acceptable and he's called for an immediate explanation from riyadh. for use in this case is and remains extremely worrying the current take is ations a serious and one has to say disturbing therefore of clearly ex

h so trump does, and in getting trump, they end up reporting what trump said. that was the tipping point, plus what kavanaugh did to save himself. but you are right, presumption of innocence gone. they were close to killing that by intimidating republican on that committee. but it didn't work again because i believe the president came in and saved the day. >> sean: look, i don't havere a crystal ball. i always thought and believed in my heart the media is wrong, trump can win. you can see it, you can feel it. i don't know who is going to run against obama in '08. you saw the crowds, you saw the enthusiasm, in that case, i think it was a lot of hype and no change, typical left-wing policies. you predicted to me that it would fail, and it did fail. but something is different. president trump -- you could see building momentum. and now we have these midterms. florida, they could pick up a senate seat. i think you could pick one up in missouri. i think you will hold nevada. i think you will win in arizona. north dakota, indiana, all potential pickups, where i would

but it's donald trump -- mine it's fred trump's business and fred trump's tax returns and then all the business relationships that they -- that we've never seen, the subsidiaries they had to hide what they were doing. >> blatant stuff, ways of essentially moving money from parents to children that you would have to declare as income that they hide from the irs and rip the government off. >> yeah, i talked to a tax lawyer tonight who said that he was a little bit shocked at how crude all these machinations were. he said, you know, maybe they couldn't hire -- or maybe they were too cheap to hire good tax lawyers. but, you know, they just did very blatant stuff. the main technique is -- which the irs really should catch and the state tax authorities should catch is just lying about the value of the assets. then when you're transferring them, if you say they're worth a lot less then you pay much lower taxes on it. that's a blatant, obvious fraud that really should be caught. >> by the way, this is lying on the underlying assets is a recurring theme in the michael cohen -- in some of the mi

is trump's power slipping in trump country? if so, what could explain it. we went to pennsylvania, and we talked to a candidate who's received some of the strongest presidential support this year, but he's still lagging behind. >> this is the trump truck. >> are these just all the politicians you like? >> yeah, these are the politicians i respect. >> roving across the country in support of both the president and the candidates he's endorsed. at the top of that list, pennsylvania senate candidate, lou barletta. >> a congressman who has voted with the president 97.8% of the time standing with him on key issues like border security, immigration, and gun control. >> it's immigration, border security. it's the economy, i mean, they're the things that people talk about here all the time. >> but despite trump's popularity here, barletta is currently trailing by double-digits against democratic incumbent, bob casey. a gab his supporters in pennsylvania blame on the polling. >> there's no question the polls are wrong. >> but barletta's not alone. across the country,

trump is playing to that. you've seen republicans and democrats in different eras have to deal with this. this is the some brilliant strategy of it begins with trump. it's something i think that he has voiced in a way we haven't seen from american presidents in some time. certainly not from republicans. the republican party very much at one point, think about bob dole basically said the races have no place in the republican party. ken melman in 2005, going before the naacp and apologizing to the naacp for playing racial politics oftentimes to the benefit of the republican party. then you have trump basically saying let's try this sort of divisive strategy around race. it just so happened that enough voters and some of these vote others voted for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 but also had racially conservative views. in some ways i think he very much played to it to great effect. we'll see how it works. does it keep working? >> i want to play this clip, jon stewart talking about president trump. he says trump i

either the president doesn't know the fbi found somebody who's a pro-trump supporter and has pro-trump leanings and he's not staying on top of this case. or two, he does know about this, he knows that the fbi is going to make an arrest. the arrest was made within the hour of him having sent that tweet. and he's just taking the chance to fan the flames of a conspiracy theory. he will get to the podium and read the script, but he will find a way to send a signal to his supporters that they don't have to believe what they have just heard him say. they don't have to believe what the press has to say. they can choose a conspiracy theory option that is more politically advantageous to what they see to their political divide. >> and those brave enough not to continue down the road of that false flag theory are now using this false equivalence that bernie sanders told this guy to shoot up the baseball game. that's absolutely not true. but harry litman, let's go a little further down this road matt miller was going down. the white house told us or told the media that the president is on top of

although the trump organization vowed not to pursue new foreign ventures while trump is in office. there's wide overlap between his business interests and the international relationships he must navigate as president. a chinese government owned bank runs a twentieth floor of trump tower in new york city at a trump property adjacent to the un saudi arabia and india own apartments. the new unit there this year. trump posts foreign dignitaries at mar-a lago his private club where membership rates doubled after his election his companies have been granted approval for trademarks in china even as the president negotiated trade policy with its leader so far i have got nothing absolutely nothing but the potential conflicts of interest are many and they've raised charges that trump is violating the us constitution in the news that the charges are laid out in several lawsuits one of which is now focused on the trumpeted national we decided to file a lawsuit because it was a violation of this country's oldest anti-corruption law and that is the emoluments clauses both foreign and domestic. w

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. >> that trump base has been fired with donald trump, and i will say this, the democrats had the anti-trump venom going. they had the super soaker, if you will. the problem is now republicans have their own super soak ner brett kavanaugh. i will just say you mentioned 2010 and 1994. what was motivating in those elections? the tea party in 2010, both democrats suffered under it. this time around you don't have that full on hate because you have it on both sides. i think that's a big difference. >> one specific group to watch, if you remember the special election in alabama, black women voted in huge numbers and we -- people i know down there. before that election i heard stuff i hadn't heard before in terms of organizing activity, enthusiasm for elections. i would watch that, particularly throughout the south. in a state like north carolina, south carolina, in georgia especially where there's a big governor's election, i would watch that group. >> peggy, i want to point out one other thing. one of the missing pieces of analysis in 2016 that we didn't surface in time that i think would have h

it's ivanka trump. i imagine he has his hands full sometimes but he's got to be a great husband. >> the couple balanced raising their three children with their real estate careers and personal ventures. >> this is sample of some of our collections. >> ivanka trump marketed her own line of clothing and accessories and kushner invested heavily in debt companies. >> he helped fund raise hundreds of thousands for start-ups and it was clear that he had a pretty incredible network. >> jared's rolo dex was massive. he knew people. and people liked him. >> meanwhile kushner companies had grown no a diverse real estate conglomerate. jared brought the company into trendy brooklyn neighborhoods and there was much more. >> they went on a buying spree. they were buying all kinds of different properties. seemed to be everywhere at once. >> but there was a threat on the horizon. that overpriced building, 666 fifth avenue and the $1.2 billion debt that was coming due. >> the building that made their entree into new yor

>> trump: okay. that's just a figure of speech. >> stahl: just like-- no, it's like an embrace. >> trump: it-- well, let it be an embrace. let it be whatever it is to get the job done. >> stahl: yeah, but he's a bad guy. >> trump: look. let it be whatever it is. i get along with him really well. i have a good energy with him. i have a good chemistry with him. look at the horrible threats that were made. no more threats. no more threats. >> stahl: china. >> trump: i get along with him. it's very important. china, let's go. >> stahl: i'm skipping across the world here. you've slapped a lot of tariffs on them-- >> trump: $250 billion. >> stahl: going to do more? >> trump: might. might. >> stahl: round three? >> trump: they want to negotiate, lesley. they want to negotiate. >> stahl: are you ready? >> trump: look. >> stahl: are you ready to-- >> trump: i have a great chemistry also with president xi of china. i don't know that that's necessarily going to continue. i told president xi, we cannot continue

and fazed by donald trump's warning, welcome to fox news at night, team coverage, live, donald trump's rally wrapping up, for key diplomatic developments but first we go to kristin fisher with the latest, the saudis claim he was killed in a fistfight gone wrong. >> this is the report we have been waiting for, 17 days after jamal khashoggi's dispense the saudis claim it was an accident they killed him. here's what happened. they describe it as a discussion between jamal khashoggi that developed in a negative led to a fight and a quarrel leading to his death in their attempt to conceal and cover what happened. the question is how will donald trump respond? he promised to the a consequences if the saudi's are responsible but he said he would prefer polling what could be one of the us's greatest forms of punishment off the table, worth billions of dollars. >> i prefer we don't use as retribution canceling $110 billion worth of work which means 600,000 jobs. i know it sounds easy and a lot of people said let's not sell them $110 billion or take it a step further, let's not sell them $450 bi

so no, don't buy it at all. >> trump's gonna trump. but i look at the results and all the things, the economy is booming. >> reporter: when i talk to republican women about this movement, and in the 11th, for example, the democrat, it seems, is moving ahead, they will tell you they think it's a similar thing to 2016. there is a silent majority, they're a little nervous about speaking up or putting out a yard sign but they believe they will go out to vote next tuesday. >> trump is gonna trump. thank you so much, chris. from michigan to minnesota, where in suburban minneapolis, democrats are hoping to flip a seat that has been historically red by electricity democrat dean phillips. nbc's kevin tibbles is on the ground. kevin, what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, stephanie, first off, i'm in dunn brothers coff coffee, a great place to come for political conversation, which is of course what we're doing here this morning. the third district in minnesota could actually flip. that's very important. yesterday we were up in the eighth, the

trump: right? [applause] together we have made extraordinary progress, but we are just getting started. if you vote to elect republican house and republican senate, we will continue to cut your taxes, cut your regulation, and raise your incomes very substantially. [applause] pres. trump: we, unlike the democrats, will protect medicare and social security. remember what i said during the debate. we will protect them. we will defend your second amendment and protect your right to free speech and religious liberty. [applause] pres. trump: with your help, mitch mcconnell, rand paul, and all of the people that work so well with us will continue to confirm incredible pro constitution judges, not radical far left judges who will rewrite your constitution, and replace your kentucky values. not going to happen. 84 judges, think of that, a record. we actually have a lot to go. 84 judges approved. what a difference. finish, maybe 50% of the court. we will fully secure the border, we will pass case law, stop s

trump: president trump: good man. a good man. a vote for steve is a vote for me and our agenda to make america great again. you know that agenda. a lot of hats. a vote for steve's opponent, his name is paul davis -- [crowd booing] president trump: he is not good. it is a vote for the radical agenda of nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. and a legendary maxine waters. [crowd booing] president trump: here in kansas, his opponent, paul davis, voted time and time to raise your taxes and to give public benefits to illegal aliens. if you want to stop nancy pelosi from becoming speaker of the house? you better get out and vote for steve watkins, please. a majority of house democrats have already sponsored a socialist takeover of health care. the democrats' plan would eviscerate medicare and eliminate medicare advantages for 20 million seniors. [crowd booing] president trump: we want to protect medicare and we will as republicans protect medicare for our great seniors, who have earned it and paid for it. and we will always protect americans

act like trump. just say, act like trump. >> look, there are a lot of -- >> there we go. talk about the embassy movement. >> you want to answer for me? i'm good with t. >> i have the republican answer. we moved the embassy. >> every human being has virtue and vices. donald trump has great virtues for republicans and conservatives who feel like we lose a lot of cultural battles and size and scope of government. then he has the vices which is he says things in politics that offend people. sometimes he's over the line with some of his comments. i think actually the voters kind of get that. he fights so hard sometimes, he fights a little too much. and at the they'd like maybe -- even his own supporters once in a while want him to say he's winning. he's doing pretty well. the economy is doing great. >> i thought the question was his behavior. do you like it? >> i do. >> you do like his behavior? >> i do like his behavior. >> really? wow. >> there is much to donald trump i love moore kids to emulate, including the fact when he -- >> let's start with this. he says some things th

trump. judge dismissing stormy daniels defamation lawsuit against the president. we have all the details and what michael avenatti is vowing to do next. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. we begin tonight with the latest on missing saudi journalist jamaal khashoggi. correspondent kristin fisher has all the latest details. good evening. >> shannon, the white house continue to monitor these reports that saudi arabia may be preparing to admit that they accidentally killed khashoggi, that it was a an authorized -- unauthorized interrogation gone wrong. president trump was briefed about it on air force one and he gave us his first reaction to those reports a few hours ago while touring o'hare the hurrie damage. >> nobody knows if it's an official report. so far it's just the rumor of a report coming out. >> earlier today president trump that he spoke on the phone for about 20 minutes with saudi king salman and his denial of any involvement in khashoggi's dea

trump this morning. the most important man in america today is nathan eovaldi of boston red sox who takes the hill today, the series in tied 1-1. i'm optimistic. it's such a great series you wish it was going to be seven games, it's only five. it's obviously the best of five. whoever gets to three first continues on. we will find out a lot about that tonight at the big ballpark in the bronx. >> the big ballpark in the bronx, it is all about eovaldi. last minute decision to go with eovaldi instead of porcello. that's tomorrow night. but, man, the dodgers are looking strong. the astros are looking tough as ever. those two teams making good argument that it may be a repeat, but right now i don't know that there's a tougher team, mika, as you were just saying last night, there is not a tougher team and a hotter team in baseball right now than the los angeles dodgers. >> all right. coming up -- >> do you remember saying that? >> i was saying that -- i said that, yeah. >> got it. yeah. >> mika, do you know wha

was it steve bannon who put this idea of nationalism in trump's head? >> i think that bannon was the one who distilled a set of policies into this idea of nationalism that trump took up during the 2016 campaign. it obviously proved very effective for him. although bannon has left the white house and is no longer as close to trump as he once was, if you look at the idea that trump is talking about in the stretch run of the campaign, they're being tough on china, being aggressive on trade and opposing tariffs and most prominently of all, demonizing immigrants like the caravan coming up through central america and using that as a motivator to inspire fear and terror and anger in a lot of voters. that's a recipe that worked well for trump in 2016 and i think it's one he's trying to replicate ahead of the november 6th elections. >> there's the fear that president trump is using and then there's the fear that the word nationalism brings up in a lot of other people. leah, it is a loaded word to put it mildly for a number of americans. put that into context for

but kukes donated $2,700 to the trump campaign, plus another $273,000 to the trump victory committee. which distributed the money between the campaign, the rnc and state republican parties. >> by giving the kind of money he gave, he is putting himself on the radar for the republican party, for the trump campaign. >> so you give that much money, people notice? >> exactly. when you make calls, your calls are answered. you're not getting an aide. you're not getting a staffer. you're getting someone in the position of power to help you. >> the timing also raises red flags because kukes started majoring his donation s to trump victory exactly two weeks after the now infamous meeting between trump campaign officials and that russian lawyer. >> so, right after the trump tower meeting, the one with don junior, the russian lawyer, that's when the funds -- the tap is opened? >> absolutely. and that's why it's so suspicious. the big question is was this orchestrated to essentially act as a loop hole to get money legally into the campaign. >> if it was orchestrated or done at the behest of a fore

trump. this was in response to -- i believe your reporting and "the new york times" reporting on the meeting in trump tower. don junior says in a statement, this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. and when he was offered these dirt or whatever it was, he said, if it's what you say, i love it. so we're not groping in the dark in terms of trying to understand the trump campaign's affinity for their appetite for and their willingness to receive assistance from russians and their associates. so why wouldn't we believe, why shouldn't we believe that what you all are reporting, roger stone's coordination or collusion with assange was something within the realm of what this campaign was up to at the time. >> yeah, well, you're right, nicolle, there's this don junior meeting as well. and it wasn't just don junior who took that meeting in the summer of 2016 at trump tower looking for dirt on hillary clinton from the r

trump mocked him. and then we go to singapore. and suddenly, trump is all about diplomacy. he is all about a joint declaration. except for the fact that why would the koreans ever signed a deal with a guy who just walked away from the area nuclear deal? what we want, and i ran, north korea is another nuclear deal. we had a basic premise. do not bring the president of the united states to see the president of north korea. except at the end of a process. in which they have given up their nukes. the idea of going at the start, you know, kim jong-un is not a very nice person. and he looks funny. but he is winning. after all, he decided, and back to enter a poker game. i'm going to have to bargain. i'm going to build nuclear weapons. that is one way to get chips on the table. and then he breaks his mountain and so then, he decides i'm going to de-escalate. and get more chips on the table. and i'm going to arrest people and just before trump shows up i will release them. and if he's not paying enough attention and congratulates me for that i will get credit for that too. and then

he turned from being anti-trump to strong trump. lou: if he's not pro -- why would anybody be anti-trump? here is a man who turned around the economy. this is an economy the chairman of the federal reserve which i think the president is absolutely right, this jerome powell is out of his mind to be raising rates at this pace. and he is jeopardizing a strong economy and markets performing beautifully. there is 2% inflation. that's the target. what's the excuse. but getting back to it. the president has done -- there is nothing he can do. >> no one has ever had a stronger economy in the last 50 years i have been around the game as this president has driving this agenda. it should be a slam dunk. the biggest problem in the house is we have 40-plus house members who gave up their seats to run for something else. going in and defending those seats, they lost their chairmanship so they didn't want to go back. that's what makes this difficult. lou: it makes it difficult because you have a rino lame duck speaker. as far as i can tell he's do

trump unprecedented, but is he? has there been another equivalent to him? is it andrew jackson? i tend to think. is there another president like this? >> superficial similarities but i think this is a president who is in a category of his own. first president in history with no military experience, no experience in government. in 2016 the nation gave the sacred control of our nuclear weapons and the questions of war and peace, the prospect of a war that could kill upwards of 16 million people and incinerate the northern hemisphere, that is the kind of power that is in the hands of a president of the united states. we and our children are totally dependent on his character. >> michael beschloss, the book is "presidents of war." i'm going use host privilege and ask you to please sign it next time i see it in person. >> i would be honored. >> thank you. thank you very much. coming up, more "am joy." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ comfort. what we deliver by delivering. and i heard that my cousin's so, wife's sister's husband was

james comey, trump said. oh, but it's worse than that. i quote him here. i could give you 100 pictures of him and comey hugging and kissing each other. 100 pictures of them hugging and kissing. okay, that's scandalous and strange. the daily color printed without question. but lee pold made a freedom of information act with the fbi, his request, please, please, send the hundred pictures of comey and mueller hugging and kissing, thank you. a month went by. brace yourselves, we were unable to locate records responsive to your request. therefore, your request is being administratively closed. perhaps that was a whole lot of trouble to confirm trump makes stuff up. james comey was pleased, saying, quote, my wife is so relieved. >>> there are just 12 days until november 6th and one of the factors in play in some of the more rural states that voted for president in 2016 is the impact of trump's trade war on farmers. in tennessee a state trump won by 26 points republican marsha blackburn has aligned herself closely w

as a trump resort. a huge amount of co-funding has recently come in from chinese government affiliated interests. at the same time that he was doing favors for this company i mentioned, which you are referencing cte. we don't know if they're connected. close in time and there's reason to worry aboutec it. we shouldn't be worrying about it at all. the constitution has a solution for this which is don't take gifts from foreign government so we don't have to worry about it. in this case i don't think congress would've given approval. if it had we would understand the terms of the deal what's going on and what not to worry about it. >> host: can you talk about your work tracking conflict of interest at president trump? >> guest: we arein worried about how the admin is ration is pursued. we think the most corrupt and conflict did in american history starts at resident trump and his historic decision not to sell these business interests, but attracts throughout the administration, three cabinet that is drawn

will this force president trump to take action against the saudis. >>> president trump mocking her as pocahontas, but today senator elizabeth warren claiming she has dna proof of a native american ancestor, but some critics are saying, hey, not so fast. >>> plus, president trump says he's not sure about man made climate change, despite the consensus of scientists. maybe if the epa didn't keep getting rid of scientists, he would have a better idea of what's really going on. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. breaking news in the world lead and disappearance of "washington post" journalist, jamal khashoggi. two sources telling cnn the saudi government is preparing to admit that khashoggi was indeed killed in their custody after he entered the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul, turkey, almost two weeks ago and never came back out. this news coming just hours after president trump said he believed the saudi king's denial of any knowledge of the disappearance. >> the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know. >> cnn chief intern

ah, politics. >>> the trump bump appears to be alive and well as president trump's approval rating hits the second highest point of his presidency so far, and it comes just in time for the midterms. so is this going to bring about a red wave in november? here now to debate it is democratic political analyst robert patillo and conservative commentator, amanda head. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. heather: let's talk about those approval ratings right now. we can take a look at that, ahead of the midterms, just a couple weeks away. 41% approve of president trump right now, that's compared to 54% who disapprove and then you can see the difference from just a short time ago. so what do you attribute the main thing in terms of his increasing approval ratings. i'll start with you, amanda. >> sure. i think you have to look at this from a momentum perspective. in january, democrats were enjoying a 13 point lead in the general ballot. fast forward to this summer and that lead had diminished to 4 points with i think it was a 3 point margin of error, s

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